About Catalyst Semiconductor

The global employees of Catalyst Semiconductor (NASDAQ:CATS) are committed to helping today's electronics designers balance system performance and board costs with a rapidly growing portfolio of analog, mixed-signal and non-volatile memory ICs for telecommunications, networking systems, computation, automotive, industrial and consumer markets.

Their products include Digitally Programmable Potentiometers [DPP™], white and color LED drivers, DC/DC converters, voltage supervisors, I/O expanders, serial and parallel EEPROMs, Flash memories, and NVRAMs. Typical applications for our ICs include LCD displays, cellular phones, automotive illumination and instrumentation, optical networks, wireless LANs, network cards, DIMM modules, printers, digital satellite box receivers and set-top boxes.

Their headquarters facility is located in Santa Clara, California with regional sales and technical support offices in China, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan, UK, Germany and the Americas. Our strategy is to combine a fabless business model with in-house design centers in Santa Clara, California and Bucharest, Romania to provide our customers with the high-performance and low-cost required for success in today's electronics markets.

Catalyst is a financially sound company with a history of producing high quality products for over 20 years.

About West Coast Engineering

For over 23 years, West Coast Engineering (WCE) has been supplying electronics to OEMs, CEMs and distributors worldwide. Located in Hawthorne California, near the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), West Coast Engineering has established itself as a premier independent distributor specializing in providing electronic components for the military, aeronautical, medical, automotive and commercial manufacturing industries. Catalyst Semiconductor is one of the hundreds of manufacturers that WCE carries on its linecard.

WCE has the techology and resources to handle any size transaction, no matter how big or small.

Quick Facts

• Founded: 1984
• Headquarters: Hawthorne, CA
• Other Locations: Futain, Shenzhen ▪ China PRC ▪ Brazil

West Coast Engineering is committed to providing the highest quality service to customers with its large diverse inventory stocked in its ISO9001:2000 and ESD compliant 70,000 sq. ft. warehouse. Year after year, West Coast Engineering has been considered a top independent distributor because of its principled reputation built on longstanding relationships with a dedicated customer base.

WCE's strategies differ from any other independent distributors. Listed below are some of the added measures that WCE takes to make sure that OEMs, CEMs and distributors have peace of mind when placing orders for electornic components, selling excess inventory, forming strategic alliances, and purchasing RoHS or
non-RoHS parts.